Gilgamesh, A Verse Narrative

Gilgamesh is 2/3 God and 1/3 Human

• True

• False

Shamash ____

• to drive out

• giving off light after being exposed to heat

• god associated with the sun and human laws

• ordered; commanded

_____ is the guardian of the forest.

• Gilgamesh

• Enkidu

• Grendel

• Humbaba

______ is a foil to Gilgamesh.

• Beowulf

• Enkidu

• Humbaba

• Uruk

Enkidu represents the natural man and is considered the wild man.

• True

• False

_____-restrained; spare; very plain

• austere

• decreed

• contortion

• squall

_____-ordered, commanded

• contortion

• squall

• decreed

• Shamash

_____-violent storm

• squall

• austere

• exorcise

• phosphorescent

____-kind of thin, crystalline mineral

• mica

• porter

• contortion

• decreed

_____-twisted shape or motion

• foil

• squall

• contortion

• mica